Motivational Quotes

Work

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

10.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

11.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

12.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

13.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

16.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

17.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

18.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

19.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

24.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

25.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

27.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

28.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

30.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

31.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

33.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

40.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

43.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

44.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.